History
Spain On This Day - May 18
By m.p.
May 18, 2008 - 8:28 AM

1499: A fleet of four boats leaves from Puerto de Santa María in Cádiz, commanded by Américo Vespucio and Juan de la Cosa, and makes it way to the coasts of Surinam, near Brazil

Hisham II, Caliph of Córdoba dies 1013 this day, as did poet Alonso de Bonilla in 1642.

Composer Isaac Albéniz, died this day 1909.